Vol 2 Chapter 17 (1/2)
LEVEL 2: Everything is Precious, Nothing is Replaceable
Chapter 17: Lies and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
“Heeeeey! Harucchi! I heard all about it! You killed Deathpatch! You’re AMAZING!!! I’m soooooo JEALOUS! I’m superrrrrrrrr ENVIOUS!!”
They were having drinks at Sherry’s when Kikkawa approached their table, loud and boisterous as usual It was all Ranta’s fault for opening his big mouth The news spread fast, and now everyone knew that Haruhiro and his team were the ones who killed Deathpatch
That was fine with Haruhiro though He knew killing Deathpatch was one hundred percent luck, but dead was dead, and this feltmocked as “The Goblin Slayers” all the time
“Yuh “Yuht ere done for a dozen times…”
“Y-yeah…sleepy “It was a really close call”
shi+horu glanced reproachfully at Haruhiro “And soot himself killed…”
“Uh… that was… you see…” Haruhiro rubbed the back of his neck and gave a short cough “Yes I regret my decision I’m sorry”
“Oh…” shi+horu’s gaze dropped to the floor, her expression bashful “I-I was just kidding I’ Really…”
“Mhtful “If Haru didn’t stay behind to keep Deathbatch distracted, we all ht have been wiped up”
“Yuht man, corrected
“Ho… that so?” Yume asked
“And it’s Deathpatch, not Deathbatch…”
“It all sounds the same to me,” Yume frowned
“B-but!” Mogzo indicated theturned out fine in the end All’s well that ends well, as they say…”
“You’re right, Mogzo,” Yuot yerself a neord!”
shi+horu nodded “Your old bastard sas getting really worn out too”
“Yeah, you’re right,” Mogzo said, beauys think I should na’s come to mind…”
Yuestion was “Meat-Cleaver Sword 1” which shi+horu tizo wanted to na and cool What was his definition of “cool” though? So like, “Eternal Blaze of the Executioner” hat Haruhiro came up with, but he declined to propose it out loud It sounded horrible even to his own ears So… a name… name…
Ranta ith Kikkawa, retelling the “Legend of the Heroic Deathpatch Slaying Warriors” to the other Cri it, it was almost like he’d been there too, and Haruhiro wasn’t sure if that was a
Mary had said earlier that she wanted to talk with Hayashi+, so she was up on the second floor with him Haruhiro hoped that after this, she would be able to find some peace within herself
He took another swig of beer and frowned at the bitter taste He was really glad that no one died back there But despite how relieved he was that everyone got out alive, he couldn’t be entirely happy about it, deep down in his heart Did he really perform flawlessly? Could there have been a better way, could he have made a better choice?
At the time, he’d believed, he had chosen the best option If they were put in the saht that he wouldto do? Maybe there was so he could have done before they were driven into a corner with no way out So into that kind of situation in the first place?
The self-criticism that filled hisfro But that wasn’t the case for anyone else Why? Why was he the only one who couldn’t be happy?
Because he was the leader